Helm is way, way overkill. I tried it for months and I can't get used to
it. It does too many things, has too many options, leaves buffers lying
around whenever you use it. But the way ido-mode works is quite perfect.
All except this one little visual detail that I'm thinking is probably easy
to fix.

-Steven


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> wrote:

> Steven Degutis <sbdegutis <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > These ideas seem like overkill. The current technique ido-mode
> > uses is great, it just could use a different visual
> > representation when displayed vertically, that's all. I'm sure
> > it can't be that hard, maybe forking ido-mode and hard-coding
> > it would be sufficient.
>
> In that case it would make more sense to use Helm. Helm uses a
> vertical display by default, so the best solution would be to
> create some kind of a bridge between them, so that ido provides
> the backend and Helm the frontend.
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